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ἅγιος
hágios · Greek · Strong's G40 · 233 occurrences
The KJV renders 30 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thing”
What it means
sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated)
from (an awful thing) (compare G53 (ἁγνός), G2282 (θάλπω));
How the KJV renders it
holy one, thing, saint
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“thing”
also renders tìs (G5100), asthenḗs (G772), mēdeís (G3367), tís (G5101), oudeís (G3762), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), nomízō (G3543), ʼômer (H562), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), zûwr (H2114), chay (H2416), ṭûwb (H2898), yârêʼ (H3372), kôl (H3605), kᵉlîy (H3627), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), mᵉʻaṭ (H4592), niddâh (H5079), nephesh (H5315), ʻôsheq (H6233), piggûwl (H6292), qôdesh (H6944), qâlal (H7043), qâsheh (H7186), raʻ (H7451), tahpukâh (H8419), tôwʻêbah (H8441)
Answers that weigh this word
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- Is baptism required for salvation?
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- Is the Trinity explicitly taught in the Bible?
- Is purgatory taught in scripture?
- Should Christians pray to saints?
Where it appears
233 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 1:2 · A-DPM
to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
1 Corinthians 3:17 · A-NSM
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
1 Corinthians 6:1 · A-GPM
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians 6:2 · A-NPM
Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians 6:19 · A-GSN
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 7:14 · A-NPN
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Corinthians 7:34 A-NSF1 Corinthians 12:3 A-DSN1 Corinthians 14:33 A-GPM1 Corinthians 16:1 A-APM1 Corinthians 16:15 A-DPM1 Corinthians 16:20 A-DSN1 John 2:20 A-GSM1 Peter 1:12 A-DSN1 Peter 1:15 A-ASM1 Peter 1:16 A-NPM1 Peter 2:5 A-ASN1 Peter 2:9 A-NSN1 Peter 3:5 A-NPF1 Thessalonians 1:5 A-DSN1 Thessalonians 1:6 A-GSN1 Thessalonians 3:13 A-GPM1 Thessalonians 4:8 A-ASN1 Thessalonians 5:26 A-DSN1 Timothy 5:10 A-GPM2 Corinthians 1:1 A-DPM2 Corinthians 6:6 A-DSN2 Corinthians 8:4 A-APM2 Corinthians 9:1 A-APM2 Corinthians 9:12 A-GPM2 Corinthians 13:12 A-DSN2 Corinthians 13:13 A-GSN2 Peter 1:18 A-DSN2 Peter 1:21 A-GSN2 Peter 2:21 A-GSF2 Peter 3:2 A-GPM2 Peter 3:11 A-DPF2 Thessalonians 1:10 A-DPM2 Timothy 1:9 A-DSF2 Timothy 1:14 A-GSNActs 1:2 A-GSNActs 1:5 A-DSNActs 1:8 A-GSNActs 1:16 A-NSNActs 2:4 A-GSNActs 2:33 A-GSNActs 2:38 A-GSNActs 3:14 A-ASMActs 3:21 A-GPMActs 4:8 A-GSNActs 4:25 A-GSNActs 4:27 A-ASMActs 4:30 A-GSMActs 4:31 A-GSNActs 5:3 A-ASNActs 5:32 A-ASNActs 6:5 A-GSNActs 6:13 A-GSMActs 7:33 A-NSFActs 7:51 A-DSN
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